lamborghini esto elemento

 This is the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento. A few episodes back on Top Gear telly, you'll remember we managed to steal a few precious moments with this sensational lightweight concept car; a car that weighs just 999kg, boasts a direct-injection 5.2-litre V10 engine producing 562bhp, will get from 0-62mph in just 2.5 seconds and is made almost entirely of carbon fibre.

It looks scary, but as Richard, Jeremy and James told you in TopGear.com's exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the Lambo, it's anything but. Once they decided that this Lamborghini was indeed very brilliant, we handed it over to our tame racing driver, a man unafraid of its riotous V10 and pointy, fighty angles.
And as you'll remember from its scorching power lap, the Sesto was ruddy fast. We sensed however, that you wanted more from this special edition, and thus, have provided a few extra snaps from its track time down at TG.
Enjoy. And be sure to check out next month's issue of Top Gear magazine, where Richard Hammond brings you more from the £2,000,000 hypercar.

The world expected Lamborghini to unveil its Murciélago replacement at this year’s Paris auto show—production of the wildest bull has already ended—but the supercar maker chose instead to tease us with this concept, saving its new flagship for next March’s Geneva auto show. Ah, you must now be thinking, so this smaller car previews a Gallardo replacement! Nope, it’s not that either.What, then, is the Sesto Elemento? Let's have a look at the exterior first. Despite the mid-engine layout, this concept seems compact, with a very short rear overhang. Wedgy shapes are typical for Lamborghini, but this car is even more extreme than the super-angular Reventón, the ultra-low-volume Murciélago spinoff from a few years ago. A plethora of spoilers, air vents, and triangular elements protrude from or perforate its body. There is a racing-type quick-refueling system. The rear end is open, to give spectators a clear view of the transmission and the exhaust system, the latter of which, remarkably, exits through the engine cover above the taillights.The front end and roof are marked by sharp, seemingly folded creases, and the rear part of the roof is graced by two intake ducts and two parallel lines of five holes arranged above the cylinder banks. Below the ten openings sits, obviously, a V-10. The hexagonal shape of these elements is a nod to an obsession of former Bertone designer Marcello Gandini, who penned the Miura and Countach.  

It’s very rare that you see The Stig  lose control of a car, let alone one with the sheer power of a Lamborghini  . If we’ve come to know anything about Top Gear’s tame racing driver, it’s that he rarely makes any mistakes when it he sits behind the wheel of any car.
But the improbable happened in a recent episode of Top Gear. Not only did he spin out on a car, he did it on one of the rarest exotics in the world, the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento  .
People eventually found out that the world was round and now, we also found out that The Stig is human after all.
The Stig spinning out rarely happens. In fact, before doing it on the Sesto Elemento, the only time the masked driver did it was with a Koenigsegg CCX  some years back, an episode that infamously led to the Swedish automaker installing a rear wing to add downforce to the CCX.
In this case, downforce wasn’t the issue that resulted in the Sesto Elemento spinning off the track. A high-speed left turn just caused The Stig to lose control, sending the ultra-limited Lambo into the grass, damaging the underside.
It’s tough seeing The Stig lose control of a car like the Sesto Elemento. It’s like watching Jay-Z mix up his lyrics during a live concert.
But even the best fall down sometimes and we’ve no doubts that The Stig can bounce back from this like nothing ever happened.

Only Lamborghini can make a 999kg tutorial in physics more interesting than watching a monkey in a cowboy outfit riding a dog. Seriously. The car above, you'll know, is the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, and we've just seen video of it going around a track.
After riotously crashing the 2010 Paris Motor Show and stealing everyone's thunder, Lamborghini did the decent thing and announced a tiny production run of just 20 examples, sold to enthusiasts who could use them on tracks - and tracks alone, like Ferrari's FXX programme - to play with.
So here we have one such play session. It's a bit shaky, granted, but you get a real sense of the engineering integrity and the...OK, no you can't. All you can do is ruddy hear it, and it sounds great.
But there is proper integrity contained within those jet-fighter lines. Lamborghini is fast mastering the art of carbon fibre, and this Sesto's full of it. Literally. ‘Sesto Elemento' actually translates as ‘sixth element' (which is carbon, on the periodic table), and the simple premise of power-to-weight means this thing, with its Gallardo-sourced 5.2-litre V10 manages a ratio of 562bhp-per-tonne.

That also equates to a 0-62mph time of 2.5 seconds - exactly like the Bugatti Veyron. Sheesh. Have a watch of the video below - it's Batman on a trackday! - and then follow the links below for more Lamborghini goodness.